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Generally criticizing a culture for allowing female genital mutilation isn't just "ethnocentrism". We live in a world where to be forward-thinking, you must have a certain set of beliefs. These are very broad beliefs, but one of them is that a woman is indeed a person and that she has rights and control of her own body. If you don't believe this (Like many in Islam), then jockoj's criticism is correct.

I think MNMark made it pretty clear where female genital mutilation comes into all of this. Absentia's point was that regarding Muslim theocracies as backwards is inherently an ethnocentrist thought.

MNMark then argued, effectively and correctly, that if you believe disavowing countries that condone/support female genital mutilation as ethnocentrism, then, yes, of course, most of the world is then ethnocentric.

For example, you and I are probably super fucking ethnocentric if female genital mutilation is the metric. But it's not. That's what MNMark is getting at.

Oh please, you trivialize the suffering of women in the Middle East and Africa when you compare male circumcision to female genital mutilation. One is a minor religious/cleanliness issue. The other one is designed to keep women oppressed and without sexual freedoms and rights. Please be less blatantly dense in the future.

The male end of the practice certainly didn't start out as a cleanliness issue. Both are ritual practices meant to be a physical indicator of a rite of passage. You aren't talking about people who have the worldly mindset that it is their duty to end suffering, they aren't as daft as to think that is possible. Not when the accusatory culture regularly blows up their women in its ideological war.

That and, you really don't care: some chaff on the internet talking about the anthropological approach to the issue isn't making female genital mutilation happen. In Africa, simple education of the health issues surrounding the female side of circumcision are often enough to stop whole villages from carrying it out. What it will take to stop it in the middle east, I can assure you, won't be two motes of internet commentators; if you care about the issue, as much as you speak, what is stopping you from changing the situation? These cultural traditions are often carried out without engaging the objective right/wrong portion of thought, they are just carrying out the same rites as their ancestors, without a reason to stop, they likely wont come up with one on their own any time soon.